Hello there and welcome to MY MySpace profile!!!
Many things have happened over the last few years, will get uploading some of the new material that i've been working on since leaving the Bassline Scene behind.
I have been djin for over 15 years now and started producing tracks around 7/8 years ago on clapped out pc's haha!! Things progressed a lot in 2003 when i made my first track with DJ MACCA and the track ''Don't Walk Away'' (Which a resing and a rebuild later was recently signed to Ministry Of Sound)
From my 1st ever visit to the 'Steering Wheel', my whole life had changed - this new world opened my eyes up and things would never be the same again.
I was taken away by the sounds and the choons that were playing, the atmosphere was electric - i walked to the dj booth to see a dj mixing with ease and scratching to perfection. His name was Jon Hollis and he is the reason why i became a dj - where the fooking hell have you gone jon???
Anyhoo - other djs also played a part in my future, people like Mark Jarman, Colin Dread, Matt Booker, Patrick Smoove, Jem Atkins - all Birmingham legends and playing a mixture of what was known as Mellow and handbag house - S.L.A.G every friday, crunch or tins tins after and then FUN on a saturday with the odd afterparty by C.R.E.A.M - BADDDD!!!
My interest in the music scene grew and my 1st promotion was on the cards
After running a monthly promotion at the Steering Wheel (now called Hidden & Moon Lounge) at the age of 17 on wednesday nights, i have also worked on the S.L.A.G promotion team (R.I.P PAT), run events at Club Platinum, Barrocco, Bar Hidden and Club Escape before landing Moon Lounge & Hidden
My 1st Club booking was thanks to CHAD LEWIS & ALEX (who worked at Sundissential at the time) - i was booked for Dusk Till Dawn and played there a few times before falling out with some heads on the town. I then had a few years off from the club scene and sorted myself out.
I caught the bug again when running a boat party on the river severn - the classic tunes were always a big pull to me and mixed up with the odd new track it relite that fire in me and things were gonna changep>
Party bookings, private parties, bedroom sessions and even the odd warm up act for local band 'The Twang' were happening (Big shouts to you lads, you've stuck at it and its all paying off now!!)
Then me old pal Manchester Rob phoned me 1 day and told me about this promotion we could have for friday nights in town at Club Platinum - This was the start of all good things to come
The club was dark and moody, the vibe was electric - our night finished 3 months later after trouble with a gang but the club continued to go from trength to strength. By this time i was a SWAN's & HILLBILLIE's resident - 2 underground places that started at 7am sunday morning through till 4am the next morning, Chip Charlies took our friday night place and i was made 1 of the CC residents, bookings at other places also started to come in as well. 1 i remember most is playing after ANDY WARD at a Charity event, the man is a legend!!!
While the friday night promotions had been taking place i'd also been getting weekly bookings at Bar Hidden for private parties and then i was offered Thursdays down there and 'SPICE' was launched, a fusion of Funky House & Garage.
It was during this time @ Bar Hidden that my old friend BLACK PAT (R.I.P) got incontact with me and told me S.L.A.G. was coming back @ Subway city and he wanted me on the team and the SPICE krew as well. I was well made up
From there on things got bigger and bigger, a phone call from Silk City ( came offering me my own Tuesday night show 8pm till 10pm everyweek, but me and nicky wanted to do the show together and ended up with the whole tuesday night!!!! (i had been guesting on MACCA & NICKY G'S show every thursday)
Moon Lounge then asked me take over promotions there, i teamed up with Nicky G to create a new side to the promotion that would create the biggest name in Bassline House today - ECKO RECORDS
Since then we have been hosting superclub events at Hidden & Moon Lounge, doing tours abroad, up north, down south and once or twice over the side!! One of our latest smash hit promotions has been up Merryhill's Waterfront where we have held a weekly slot for over 20 months!!
With the power of the label and all the people working for 1 goal (a big fook off party atmophere) Ecko have now exploded onto the UK scene - tracks have been licensed to All Around The World Records & Ministry Of Sound, as well as official remixes being done for Gridlock'd Records, Club Silk Recordings plus Ministry Of Sound's Peter Gelderblom's ''Waiting For'' & Damae (Fragma)
You can catch me regularly at 53 Degrees, Waterfront as well as TSneak On Broad Street - Watch Out for The Ecko Tours!!!
MIDWEEK FIX R.I.P.
Check out our website HTTP://WWW.ECKORECORDS.CO.UK
For Ecko info regarding Live PA performances, DJ bookings & Tour details please get in touch
Ecko have won Best Record label 3 times at the Club Silk Awards 2005, 2006 & 2007 (voted for by the listener) & also won Best Club Night 3 years running. I also won Dj's Dj of the year award in 2006
I have been producing tracks for a fair few years now and have over 80 remixes done so far!! Some on my own, others with people like Funkagenda, Macca (Macca and the Boy) Nicky G, Murray (Murray & The Boy), DJ Motionz - check out the Boy In Motion remixes and more recently Tough T.
WANT TO JOIN THE ECKO TEAM??? FEEL YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO OFFER?? WE ARE LOOKING FOR VOCALISTS AND TALANTED PRODUCERS TO HELP KEEP THE BASSLINE SCENE ROLLIN!!!! BE PART OF SOMETHING - BE PART OF ECKO!!
